Pre-poll stats update
One of the developing stories this week has been the continuing increase in pre-poll voting at this year's election. The AEC publishes daily updates with the number of votes cast at each pre-poll centre per day, allowing us to track how many people are...
Can you get elected from below the line?
2016 was a good year for candidates overcoming their party's Senate ballot order. We saw Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh win re-election as one of five Labor senators despite being ranked sixth on her party list, with the candidate ranked above her, John Short,...
Nominations close – final candidate numbers breakdown
Nominations were announced yesterday, with a small increase in lower house candidates but a substantial shrinking of the size of Senate ballot papers.
1056 candidates have nominated for the House of Representatives, a slight increase from the 994 who nominated in 2016, but still less...
NSW 2019 – Final upper house preference count
The New South Wales election process came to a close this morning when the button was pushed for the New South Wales Legislative Council, triggering the distribution of preferences. This count took over an hour, seemingly longer due to more voters marking preferences, and...
Nomination checklists and ineligibility
Nominations for the federal election will close next Tuesday, April 23. This is the first full federal election since a massive number of federal MPs lost their seats in 2017 and 2018 due to ineligibility, mostly due to citizenship. We'd expect about 1000 people...